Brittney J. Miller

St. Petersburg, FL, USA

@FloridaTrend associate editor & writer. previously: @gazettedotcom, @Report4America @AgWaterDesk. alum of @UCSC_SciCom '22, @UF '21. ✨🌱🦋

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Coastal Cleanup

1 month ago | floridatrend.com | Brittney J. Miller

Amid the devastation, Streeter turned to cleaning the local waterways and coastlines littered with storm debris. He formed Fisherman’s Disaster Response, now a contractor with Deerfield Beach-based disaster response leader AshBritt. His company has grown from a handful of local fishermen and their surviving vessels to a team of 40 to 45 workers equipped with grapple barges, grapple trucks, excavators and dump trucks.
Second Chance

2 months ago | floridatrend.com | Brittney J. Miller

Never miss a Feature: Subscribe to Florida Trend Lisa Colon has always been an active person. Born in Brooklyn to Caribbean immigrants, she ran cross-country in high school. Years later, after graduating from the University of Miami’s law school, she picked up long-distance running again. Before long, she found herself racing her first Chicago Marathon in 2006. With a goal of running a marathon on each continent, she soon checked off races in Brazil and Greece.
We're Going to Figure This Out

2 months ago | floridatrend.com | Brittney J. Miller

Never miss a Feature: Subscribe to Florida Trend JESSICA BEACHChief Resilience Officer, St. Augustine“The big take-home message for communities is accepting that we live near water, so we need to embrace that. We do try to fight it with infrastructure projects, but at some point, where do we draw the line?
Florida Icon: Alzo J. Reddick

2 months ago | floridatrend.com | Brittney J. Miller

Never miss a Feature: Subscribe to Florida Trend I was elected class president in 1948 at Holden Street Elementary School (the first elementary school for Black students in Orlando). Although no one in my family had ever attended college, I was identified as being bright because I could read in the first grade. That’s my first elected position. I was also very active in school politics. I was president of the NAACP, and I played football.
Agriculture's ‘Silicon Valley'

2 months ago | floridatrend.com | Brittney J. Miller

Florida’s 9.7 million acres of farms and ranches spat out around $10 billion in agricultural products in 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The state leads the nation in bell pepper, sugarcane and watermelon production. It ranks second in oranges, sweet corn and strawberries, and third in cabbage. But it’s not immune to the challenges riddling the American agricultural industry, including labor shortages, skyrocketing expenses and an aging farmer population.
Food Fight 2.0

Dec 11, 2024 | floridatrend.com | Brittney J. Miller

Never miss a Feature: Subscribe to Florida Trend The Kroger Co. — which operates under 20-plus banners, including Harris Teeter, Ralphs and Fred Meyer — reigns as one of America’s largest grocery retailers. In fiscal year 2023, it boasted $150 billion in sales and more than 11 million customers per day nationwide. The Cincinnati, Ohio-based company operates more than 2,700 stores and 35 food production and manufacturing facilities.
Nursing 2.0

Dec 3, 2024 | floridatrend.com | Brittney J. Miller

Never miss a Feature: Subscribe to Florida Trend Jing Wang is dean of Florida State University’s College of Nursing, where she also serves as a professor. In June, she was invited to serve on the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health to review and recommend grant applications for nursing research. She is nationally known for integrating technology into nursing research and education.
The country’s first national preserve, in Florida, might receive an added layer of protection.

Nov 4, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Brittney J. Miller

The story originally appeared in Florida Trend Magazine . Big Cypress National Preserve sits smack-dab between Miami and Naples, its 727,000-plus acres of freshwater wetlands adjacent to Everglades National Park and almost equal in size to Rhode Island. Established in 1974, it marked the nation’s first national preserve — a new classification designed to meld ecological conservation with public recreation.
The country’s first national preserve, in Florida, might receive an added layer of protection.

Nov 4, 2024 | tampabay.com | Brittney J. Miller

The story originally appeared in Florida Trend Magazine. Big Cypress National Preserve sits smack-dab between Miami and Naples, its 727,000-plus acres of freshwater wetlands adjacent to Everglades National Park and almost equal in size to Rhode Island. Established in 1974, it marked the nation’s first national preserve — a new classification designed to meld ecological conservation with public recreation.
The country’s first national preserve, in Florida, might receive an added layer of protection.

Nov 4, 2024 | flipboard.com | Brittney J. Miller

4 days agoGrowing up on a North Florida farm, I had grown accustomed to a myriad of sounds. Gunshots from the shooting range across the street, bullfrogs bellowing from who knows where, my parent’s severe weather radio sending its Purge-like alarm out in the middle of the night. The shriek I heard that day …